How To Understand What People Are Saying

Have you ever been in a conversation where you felt like the other person(s) didn’t understand you? Or where you didn’t understand what someone was saying to you?You might benefit from the following. People can mean one thing and say another. They can also say something but their tone of voice makes you think they are saying something else. Or what if you are so anxious to hear something that you completely miss what the other person is really saying. Or what if you are concentrating on something else so hard that you completely miss what is being said to you. Or what if you or some other person has a hearing problem? There are just so many variables to this whole issue of “understanding” each other. I think a way to possibly help with this issue is to ask the other person to repeat what you just said. Or you could repeat what you just said. Or you could ask the other person to repeat what they just said. Or you could repeat what you think they just said. All this would have to be done in a very diplomatic way. But I can personally think of some times I have failed in this “communication” issue and I wish I had followed some of the rules as above. It would certainly have solved some problems for me. I wonder if you have ever had this happen to you? Would the above have helped you?